Castello of Broken Dreams was a large cathedral like castle. Its towers rose higher than any other that then group had seen. There were seven towers on the castle. Each tower had its own flag, and on these flags where the symbols of the elements. The Tower of Fire, to the east, Tower of Wind, to the west, Tower of Earth to the north, And the Tower of Water to the south. In the center of these towers was a large tower with a flat top. Clearly this was where the battle was to take place.

The ship landed upon the ground near the gate and everyone entered the castle. The inside of the castle was enormous; it was filled with old paintings and tapestries. The entry hall was a large circle with three hall sprouting from it. Everyone gathered in the center and decided to take the northern route. Bad choice!

As the group entered a large round room the door behind them sank into the wall. Everyone gasped and turned to see Shademan sitting at an organ playing a song. They drew their weapons and readied for a fight.

Shademan turned and looked at the group, Roll caught his eye and he spoke.

"Well if it isn't my little dessert." Shademan said smiling a toothy grin at Roll.

Megaman jumped in front of Roll, "You stay away from her!" he screamed at Shademan

"Wheeeheeeheee, how sweet you want to protect her. That shall only make devouring her all the sweeter!"

Lan and Chaud jumped in front of Megaman and pushed him back, "We'll take it from here Megaman you go and find that virus!" Lan said

"What!?"

"Don't worry Mega, me, Lan, Dex, Maylu, Chaud, Proto, Dr. Hikari, and Gutsman will take it from here. You go find the virus." Roll said

"….Right…." Megaman said as he ran through the next door to the throne room.

Shademan grinned and stood from the chair at the organ slowly. He popped his neck and looked at the group before him.

"Shall we dance?" he said as he opened his wings releasing a swarm of bats from within them.

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Megaman entered the throne room wondering what the virus was like, he quickly found out. Megaman stood on the crest in the center of the room and saw two eyes glowing in the darkness. The dark figure on the throne stood and bowed to his guest.

"Good evening, Megaman." He said

"Hello. So you're the virus that has been controlling me and Necroman?"

"Correct. Although calling me a virus is such an archaic term. I am a navi just as you where. Now I am a human, just as you are."

"So just who are you?"

"Me, I am you. Only stronger, faster, and smarter." The figure said. When he said stronger he shot a statue destroying it, when he said faster he suddenly appeared behind Megaman, and when he said smarter he hung from the ceiling.

"I am what you want to be, but what you fear. You fear somethin don't you Megaman. All people do, what's your greatest fear. I think I know."

"Oh yeah, so what is it?"

"You love Roll; however you are afraid of this love. Because you don't want Roll to be hurt by people like Shademan. You have always protected Roll, and now that you have shown her you love her, you fear more. You fear that one day you will fall, and she will be left defenseless." The man said as he circled Megaman.

"How do you know this!?" Megaman screamed

"Because I am YOU!" the man screamed back as he let loose a maniacal laugh. The moonlight caught him and Megaman saw his opponent for the first time. It was him! Megaman was fighting himself!

"But how!? You're me!?"

"HAHAHA! Oh no, I am much better than you are! I am the creator of nightmares, the destroyer of dreams, and the part of you that yearns to sin. Every person in this world has their opposite; you are a perfect little boy Megaman. You listen to your elders, you do good deeds, but inside of you, inside of me, there is that part of you that wants to sin. To kill, to destroy, to love, I am that which you fear Megaman!"

"NO….NO! I DON"T BELIVE YOU!" Megaman said backing away from the copy of himself. The man looked like him, but there were some differences. Such as his clothes were purple, yellow, black, dark green, and pale red, and he wore a long gold cape. He looked like some mad copy of Megaman. Megaman could almost feel the insanity in the man's mind.

"Oh, but you do. You know it. I know what you want to do, but fear. I have seen the way you looked at Roll…"

"DON'T BRING HER INTO THIS!"

"And why not. Isn't she the reason that you broke my spell?"

He was right, and Megaman knew it, as much as he hated to admit it this Dark Megaman was right.

"Now, you didn't come here to talk about fear did you? You came to kill me. So shall we begin?"

"Yes, lets."

"Ah, but you will not win easily. I never lose!"

"Ha, funny, neither do I!"

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Shademan grabbed a small microphone piece from the side of the organ and screamed his bat like scream into it. Sonar waves shot out of the speakers in the castle and the organ pipes. Everyone fell to the ground clutching their ears. Shademan laughed a high pitched vampiric laugh; he was enjoying the humans' pain.

Roll slowly dragged herself across the floor and sneaked up behind Shademan. Roll slowly lifted into the air and thrust her sword at Shademan. Shademan screamed in pain as the blade protruded from his chest. The sonar waves ceased and quite returned to the room. Everyone stood and were almost knocked back down as Shademan released a blinding light and a strong wave of power. As the light disappeared Shademan stood before them, different than before.

Shademan now looked as he once did; only now his colors had changed. Purple replaced by silver. Yellow replaced by red. Red replaced by black. Another difference was that he no longer had any arms of legs. Instead the body was held by the large pair of wings, and a two long spiked tails had protruded from his back. He looked a lot stronger than before.

Shademan opened his mouth and a surge of sonic waves shot our heroes around the room. Lan looked toward Maylu, who now lay unconscious in front of Shademan. Shademan looked down at Maylu with a hungry look.

Lan slowly rose from the ground, the sonar waves still blaring. He ran at Shademan, propelled by some strange force, and fired rapidly at him. Shademan was taken aback by the scene, never in his life had any human stood and ran at him during the sonic blast. Shademan knew his time was limited so he flew up higher so Lan couldn't reach him.

Shademan looked up and saw a bell and grinning sinisterly, fired another wave at the bell. The entire castle shook and Lan fell back to the ground. Roll gasped, they couldn't take much more of this.

Mega…..hurry…….

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Megaman and Dark Megaman's swords locked. Dark Mega's face was covered in a dark grin. He was enjoying watching Megaman release his anger on him. Again and again the swords clashed, so hard that sparks flew around them. Megaman jumped over Dark and ran at him. Dark stepped nimbly to the side and Megaman missed. Dark swung his fist around and slammed Megaman in the chest knocking the air out of his lungs. Megaman held his chest and crouched to the floor trying to catch his breath.

"HA! So, is this all you've got!? I was expecting more from the great Megaman!"

Megaman gasped for air and stood again and ran at Dark. Dark moved to the side and laughed again. Megaman clashed swords with Dark and his second arm became a cannon. And at the same time Megaman fired Dark's arm became a cannon and fired as well. The two shots clashed and the air was filled with stress from the two bullets. Megaman and Dark dug their feet into the ground and where pushed back by the impact.

"Hmmm, this was….unexpected. I thought you to be weaker than this. No matter, I shall destroy you anyway!"

Dark ran at Megaman with two swords. Megaman ducked down and his blade pierced Dark's chest, just enough to make blood appear. But this blood was strange; it was some sort of metallic gel. Dark laughed manically as the gel fell to the floor and created a small puddle. This puddle took form and rose into the shape of Dark Megaman, his arms completely changed into swords. The colorless metallic gel of Dark ran at Megaman.

Megaman spun around and the gel missed. He then countered by chopping the gels head off. Megaman thought that he was finished, he was wrong. The gel sank to the floor and created a second puddle. Now one drone had become two. The two copies of Dark ran at Megaman. Megaman looked at Dark, he had the metallic gel all over the floor creating more copies, and each time one rose he destroyed it to created another.

One became two; two became four, four to six, and on and on until the entire room was filled with them. Dark laughed and walked toward his throne. He waved his hand and the throne and the wall dissipated revealing a stair case. Dark ascended laughing as Megaman fought the army of clones.

Megaman put up a good fight at first, and then the army of clones dived on top of Megaman. As Megaman fell to the floor he knew it would be his last moments.

The last thing he thought before he fell to the floor was:

Please, spare Roll. Please don't kill her. Please save everyone, don't let them die!